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The Humanity Quartet: Humanity

Read "Humanity" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
December 21, 2018

This release is from four veteran, first-call jazz instrumentalists who are all concerned about the worldwide loss of humanity (hence, the title of both the quartet and the CD), and wanted to demonstrate what can happen when grown-ups truly connect. As co-producer, bassist, and composer Sean Smith explains in his articulate and passionate liners, ..."the Humanity ...

Article: Album Review

The Humanity Quartet: Humanity

by Jack Bowers
December 2, 2018

Music with a message? With a name like the Humanity Quartet and a CD titled Humanity, one might certainly presume no less. Music designed to help save the world from itself? Well, that's an exceedingly tall order. The Humanity Quartet, bassist Sean Smith writes, was indeed created with such a lofty goal in mind, “recognizing the ...

Article: Live Review

Kurt Elling With The Keith Ganz Trio at Jazz Standard

by Dan Bilawsky
August 2, 2016

Kurt Elling With The Keith Ganz Trio Jazz Standard New York, NY July 31, 2016 If there's any genre of music that's truly built on the idea of spur-of-the-moment change, it's jazz. And so, in that very spirit, we had this performance. The audience that came down to hear ...

Article: Live From New York

Darius Jones, Mara Rosenbloom, Christian McBride, Tom Harrell & Leon Parker

by Martin Longley
July 15, 2016

The Darius Jones Quintet/The Mara Rosenbloom Trio Ibeam June 13, 2016 This appealing double bill made a Monday night visit to Ibeam a certainty, even if only for a select-sized audience. This musician-orientated room in the Gowanus part of Brooklyn is completely dedicated to the activity of performance, without a ...

Article: Interview

Bill Kirchner: Finding Music's Intimacy

by R.J. DeLuke
November 15, 2015

The extremely accomplished Bill Kirchner--composer, arranger, saxophonist, writer, editor, teacher--enjoys a career anyone would be proud of. He's played with important musicians, led outstanding groups and had his arrangements played by top-shelf musicians and bands. In 1996, he won a Grammy for Best Album Notes for the revered Columbia/Mosaic re-issue Miles Davis and Gil Evans: The ...

Article: Album Review

Art Lillard's Heavenly Band: Reasons to Be Thankful

Read "Reasons to Be Thankful" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 10, 2014

Although drummer Art Lillard's Heavenly Band makes its home about as far from heaven as one could plausibly roam--New York City, to be precise--the music it produces on Reasons to Be Thankful (recorded in 2000 and released six years later) evokes at times an empyrean vibe, thanks in part to blissful arrangements by Lillard and guitarist ...

News: Recording

Dr. Judith Schlesinger Co-Produces "Beautiful Love" With Paulinho Garcia

February 12, 2014

After a dozen years of commenting on other people's music, and the executive producing of the acclaimed 2011 Trust by the Sean Smith Quartet, All About Jazz columnist and reviewer Dr. Judith Schlesinger is once again putting her money where her mouth is. On Valentine's Day, her Shrinktunes Media, together with Paulinho Garcia's Jazzmin Records, is ...

Article: Interview

Kevin Hays: Creative Flow

by George Colligan
September 21, 2013

[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth]If you aren't familiar with pianist Kevin Hays, you should be. He's recorded and toured with many of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. And those who call him can't seem to get enough of him. His recent projects as a ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Dr. Judith Schlesinger

by AAJ Staff
March 22, 2013

I currently live in: Dobbs Ferry, NY I joined All About Jazz in: 2002 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? Was thrilled to discover it back in 2002. Happy to do whatever I can to nurture and promote my favorite music. How do you ...

Album

Trust

By Sean Smith

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011
Track listing: Betting Blind; Wayne's World; Lawn Ornaments; Occam's Razor; Voices; What'd You Say?; Graham Ewan; Bush League; Ditty For Ms. de' Medici; Izmir?/The Maharajah; Margin Of Error.